Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 2 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 3 | If I were William Styron , the third speaker , I 'd keep my head down . |
| 4 | I can tell you this much , if I were Lionel Dunbar , I 'd have packed her in months ago . |
| 5 | Susan and Luke and I were friends years ago : we lost touch not long before you and Luke came to know one another . ’ |
| 6 | The snag is it could be almost anyone , and if I were Neneh Cherry or Stock , Aitken or Waterman , I do n't think I 'd be losing sleep over it . |
| 7 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 8 | In fact I were shop steward in the , in the building trade , I was a shop steward in the building trade . |
| 9 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 10 | and his were fivepence ha'penny |
| 11 | At the time of this incident I was patrol inspector at . |
| 12 | I was Mouncy Street . |
| 13 | I was night work , till I retired . |
| 14 | I was night relief nurse in Hope , a women 's acute medical ward , and tonight was one of the rare nights when all three Hope night nurses were on together . |
| 15 | Right , so then you 'd guess that I was Saint Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 16 | Anyway that 's what that was the time when I was sea sick , when we come across the channel . |
| 17 | There 's a number in the er when I was Church Street so that 's a few years now so it needs to be checked . |
| 18 | I realised who I was O K — I just could n't live inside the envelope . |
| 19 | I telephoned Capital Radio 's Helpline , saying that I was Linford Christie and needed help . |
| 20 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |
| 21 | I was n't Marti Caine at that stage , I was Zoe Bond , but only after being Sunny Smith for three weeks . |
| 22 | This morning I was Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 23 | When I was Defence Secretary and , to my shame , trying to sell tanks to King Idris in Libya , I was pretty sure that he 'd be overthrown in an army coup , and I tried to identify the colonel who was likely to be the leader of the coup . |
| 24 | He said I was Ruth Scaraby and I said No , I was Ruth Day . ’ |
| 25 | He said I was Ruth Scaraby and I said No , I was Ruth Day . ’ |
| 26 | My daughter told me that I was chrome yellow , and a glance in the mirror proved her right . |
| 27 | During the later part of my career , I was University Estates Officer to the new University of York from the university 's inception in ninety sixty three until my retirement . |
| 28 | ‘ I was art director of Rolling Stone for about two minutes ’ , says Marchbank . |
| 29 | ‘ I was spending money creatively ; I made a contribution to the family restaurant market , which is still in place , and which enabled people to have a very good value meal in enjoyable surroundings , for less money . |
| 30 | I found that I was spending money every day . |